Biography:
Sarah Ann Mashford
03/09/1871 –1941
Sarah Ann Mashford

Unmarked grave Sarah Ann Mashford (née Jones) (1871-1941)
Sarah was born 3 September 1871, the daughter of single woman Rose Hannah Jones who was seventeen at the time. Sarah was baptised in St Peter’s 11 August 1872.
Rose Hannah and her baby lived with Hannah’s grandmother, Ann Ayling, in the High Street. Both women were straw plaiters.
Sarah attended the Berkhamsted and Northchurch National School. On 17 September 1877 the school log noted, “Sarah Jones, a girl I sent home with bad head, has returned, her head is now quite well.” Quite what a “bad head” was is not clear – possibly nits or lice? On 23 July 1880 Sarah was off school with scarlet fever.
Sarah went into service and in April 1891 was a live-in domestic servant in the home of Edward Carwell, a chartered accountant, and his family, in the High Street.
She married George Mashford, a pit sawyer, in 1895 in Berkhamsted. Grace Violet was born 1895/6), followed by Minnie (1897) and Frederick (1901)
In March 1901 the family was living at 23, George Street but George died that year, aged only 30. He was buried in St John’s, the newly built church between Berkhamsted and Bourne End.
In 1911 Sarah worked as a washerwoman and lived in George Street with Minnie and Frederick.
Minnie died 1919
In June 1921 Sarah was living with her widowed mother, now Rose Hannah Rance, at 52, George Street. Sarah was employed as a charwoman by two individuals living in the High Street. They also had a lodger.
By 1939 she was living alone at 201, High Street.
Sarah died at 95, Charles Street in January 1941, aged 69.
Her father-in-law William Mashford and his sons Fred and John also lie in this cemetery.

in the cemetery
Unmarked grave Sarah Ann Mashford (née Jones) (1871-1941)
Sarah was born 3 September 1871, the daughter of single woman Rose Hannah Jones who was seventeen at the time. Sarah was baptised in St Peter’s 11 August 1872.
Rose Hannah and her baby lived with Hannah’s grandmother, Ann Ayling, in the High Street. Both women were straw plaiters.
Sarah attended the Berkhamsted and Northchurch National School. On 17 September 1877 the school log noted, “Sarah Jones, a girl I sent home with bad head, has returned, her head is now quite well.” Quite what a “bad head” was is not clear – possibly nits or lice? On 23 July 1880 Sarah was off school with scarlet fever.
Sarah went into service and in April 1891 was a live-in domestic servant in the home of Edward Carwell, a chartered accountant, and his family, in the High Street.
She married George Mashford, a pit sawyer, in 1895 in Berkhamsted. Grace Violet was born 1895/6), followed by Minnie (1897) and Frederick (1901)
In March 1901 the family was living at 23, George Street but George died that year, aged only 30. He was buried in St John’s, the newly built church between Berkhamsted and Bourne End.
In 1911 Sarah worked as a washerwoman and lived in George Street with Minnie and Frederick.
Minnie died 1919
In June 1921 Sarah was living with her widowed mother, now Rose Hannah Rance, at 52, George Street. Sarah was employed as a charwoman by two individuals living in the High Street. They also had a lodger.
By 1939 she was living alone at 201, High Street.
Sarah died at 95, Charles Street in January 1941, aged 69.
Her father-in-law William Mashford and his sons Fred and John also lie in this cemetery.